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Fast Forward Kosher Florida Cafe Attacked by Vandals
A new kosher restaurant in Florida owned and managed by Israelis has received anti-Semitic hate mail and graffiti for the last month. The messages have been tacked to the door and windows of The Mozart Cafe in Deerfield Beach, the Florida Jewish Journal reported. They include “go home” and “go to hell,” as well as…
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Fast Forward Wallenberg Honored on Centenary of Birth
Ceremonies in Budapest inaugurated Raoul Wallenberg Year, a series of events marking the centennial of the birth of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Israeli Cabinet minister Yossi Peled opened observances in Budapest on Tuesday, the anniversary…
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Fast Forward White House Sees Progress in Peace Talks
The Obama administration heralded progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks held under Jordanian auspices. “We believe that those talks offer the parties a real opportunity to make meaningful progress towards peace,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday ahead of a visit by Jordanian King Abdullah II. “So we support this progress, but we obviously recognize that…
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News Synagogue Attacks Have New Jersey on Edge
As Jews in some northern New Jersey communities made their way to synagogue last Shabbat, the scene was slightly different from the typical day of rest. Extra police cars were on patrol near synagogues. At Bnei Yeshurun in Teaneck, a new buzzer system had been installed. And at Ahavath Torah in Englewood, a phalanx of…
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Fast Forward Abbas Meets Lauder and Latin Jewish Leader
The presidents of the World Jewish Congress and Latin American Jewish Congress expressed hope for progress in Middle East peace at a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Latin American Jewish Congress President Jack Terpins described the positive experience of Arab and Jewish communities’ coexistence in Latin America, where they often live side by…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Spurs Legal Fight
Plans by a British publisher to make segments of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” available in the German language may run into legal trouble. Publisher Peter McGee said he plans to publish three annotated excerpts of the text, which remains under copyright protection in Germany until 2015, 70 years after Hitler’s death, according to the Associated…
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Fast Forward Barnard College Cleared in Bias Case
Barnard College was cleared of charges that a professor discriminated against an Orthodox Jewish student by steering her away from a class. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Jan. 11 notified Barnard that it had halted its investigation into a complaint that Professor Rachel McDermott, then the chair of the college’s…
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Fast Forward Huntsman Quits Race, Goes With Romney
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman will endorse Mitt Romney for president. The former Utah governor will make the announcement that he is ending his campaign Monday in South Carolina, the Washington Post reported, five days ahead of the Republican primary in the state. Huntsman and Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, are both moderate Republicans and…
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